JOTTINGS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 34, 26 September 1914, Page 3

JOTTINGS.

In the list of Kohuratahi subscribers to the Patriotic Fund, recently published in the “Post,” two names were inadvertently omitted—C. Brown 10s, J. Blair 10s.

Germany’s direct war expenses are said to total thirty million reichmarks and her economic loss is forty-five million reichmarks daily. r J lie reichmark is equivalent to about 19s Gd in Fugli'li money.

Some Kaiserisms. —The German Kaiser addressing Ids people at Brandenburg in 1890 said: “I look Upon the people and nation handed on to me as a responsibility conferred upon me oy God, and that it is, as it is written in the Bible, my duty to increase this heritage for which one day I shall be called upon to give an account; those who try to interfere with my task i shall crush,” Ho has got a pretty tall contract in hand at present. Again, in 1891, at a banquet, he said: “There is only one master of the nation, and that is I, and I will not abide any ether. I need Christian soldiers, soldiers who say their Pater Nosters. Ihe soldier should not have a will of his own. but you should all have but one will, and that is my will; there is but one law for you, and that is my law. Just as I, as Emperor and ruler, consecrate my life and my strength to the service of the nation, so you are pledged to give your lives to me.”

Some little while ago a philanthropic citizen, with a view to sweetening the lot of the men now in camp at Sockburn during their sea voyage aboard, placed at the disposal of the secretary of the Christ diuvch Young Men’s Christian Association 3001bs of honey. It was decided that as the men were well supplied with luxuries in camp it ivould be best to put the honey aboard one of the troopships. To the astonishment of the donor the authorities to w'hom the gift was offered made reply that the provisions of the troopships w r ere in the hands of a firm of contractors, and gifts of provisions could therefore not be received aboard the ships. The gift of honey is only one of a number of similar donations, and the donors find it difficult to understand how r the contractors can be prejudiced by these free gifts. Colonel Richardson, the official receiver of gifts for the New’ Zealand field force, has promjsed to again communicate , with the authorities in Wellington upon the subject, with a view’ to seeing if some way cannot be found out of the difficulty.